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Making the Voyageur World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

Making the Voyageur World

Through a detailed analysis of their unique occupational culture, Making the Voyageur World reexamines the French Canadian workers who dominated the fur trade industry and became iconic images of North American lore.

Pinaire Family History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 474

Pinaire Family History

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Oral History Off the Record
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 533

Oral History Off the Record

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a human-centered methodology.

Rough Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Rough Work

Cover -- Page i -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Contracting on Public Works, 1841 to 1882 -- 2 The Labour Force -- 3 The Work -- 4 The Living -- 5 The Boundaries of Belonging: Navvy Communities of the 1840s and 1850s -- 6 Degrees of Separation: Redefining the Boundaries of Belonging through the 1870s -- 7 Defining a Community of Interests: The 1840s and 1850s -- 8 Labour Unity and Militance on Public Works through the 1870s -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Location of Contracts (Sections) on the Intercolonial Railway and Third Welland Canal -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Canadian Social History series

Regulating Girls and Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Regulating Girls and Women

Analyzing key examples of the sexual and familial regulation (through the law) of girls and women in twentieth-century Canada, this work explores the ways in which class, race, and gender shape the definition and punishment of criminality. It also examines the changing social and legal definitions of "normal" versus "criminal" sexual and family relationships, using case studies of incest, childhood sexual abuse, wife assault, prostitution, girls in conflict with the law, and Native women and the law.

When the State Trembled
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

When the State Trembled

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike. When the State Trembled recovers the hitherto untold story of the Citizens' Committee of 1000, formed by Winnipeg's business elite in order to crush the revolt and sustain the status quo. This account, by the authors of the award-winning Walk Towards the Gallows, reveals that the Citizens drew upon and extended a wide repertoire of anti-labour tactics to undermine working-class unity, battle for the hearts and minds of the middle class, and stigmatize the general strike as a criminal action. Newly discovered correspondence between leading Citizen lawyer A.J. Andrews and Acting Minister of Justice Arthur Meighen illuminates the strategizing and cooperation that took place between the state and the Citizens. While the strike's break was a crushing defeat for the labour movement, the later prosecution of its leaders on charges of sedition reveals abiding fears of radicalism and continuing struggles between capital and labour on the terrain of politics and law.

Prophetic Identities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Prophetic Identities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

The spread of Christianity is often presented as a story of conquest, of powerful European missionaries waging a cultural assault on hapless indigenous victims. Yet the presence of indigenous men among missionary ranks in the nineteenth century complicates these narratives. What compelled these individuals to embrace Christianity? How did they reconcile being both Christian and indigenous in an age of empire? Tolly Bradford finds answers to these questions in the lives and legacies of Henry Budd, a Cree missionary from western Canada, and Tiyo Soga, a Xhosa missionary from southern Africa. Inspired by both faith and family, these men found in Christianity a way to construct a modern concepti...

Race on Trial
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Race on Trial

  • Categories: Law

While slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns of social, legal, and attitudinal inequality in Ontario by documenting the history of black Ontarians who appeared before the criminal courts from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Using capital case files and the assize records for Kent and Essex counties, areas that had significant black populations because they were termini for the Underground Railroad, Barrington Walker investigates the limits of freedom for Ontario's African Canadians. Through court transcripts, depositions, jail records, Judge's Bench Books, newspapers, and government correspondence, Walker identifies trends in charges and convictions in the Black population. This exploration of the complex and often contradictory web of racial attitudes and the values of white legal elites not only exposes how blackness was articulated in Canadian law but also offers a rare glimpse of black life as experienced in Canada's past.

Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the Cty of Boston
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254
Re-imagining Ukrainian Canadians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 497

Re-imagining Ukrainian Canadians

The Canadian Social History Series is devoted to in-depth studies of major themes in our history, exploring neglected areas in the day-to-day existence of Canadians. The emphasis of this innovative series is on increasing the general appreciation of our past and opening up new areas of study for students and scholars. The editor of the series is Gregory S. Kealey, Provost, Professor of History and Vice-President (Research), University of New Brunswick. A leading historian of the Canadian working class, Dr Kealey was the founding editor of Labour/Le Travail. Ukrainian immigrants to Canada have often been portrayed in history as sturdy pioneer farmers cultivating the virgin land of the Canadia...